Germany's largest-circulation Sunday newspaper, Bild am Sonntag, reported, on May 11th,
that 400 mercenaries from the former Blackwater private-security firm (the one
that George W. Bush hired for Iraq and Afghanistan), which has now been renamed
Academie, have arrived in the eastern part of Ukraine, to enforce control by
the recently U.S.-installed central Ukrainian government, which is based in
Kiev, in the western part of that country.

The Pakistan Defence website has the best summary,
headlining "Turchynov regime apparently gets help from
U.S. mercenaries" and reports: "What was first
denied as irresponsible rumors and Russian propaganda by the U.S.
military service turns out to be the real deal after investigation by
German reporter. Der Spiegel quotes according to German
newspaper 'Bild am Sonntag,' [saying that] Turchynov loyalist forces
receive support from 400 Academi mercenaries. The German secret service
has rejected to comment, but unlike its U.S. counterpart did not deny
it. Washington fully recognizes the so called interim government as
the new legitimate and representative ruling body of Ukraine. With
armed U.S. boots on Ukrainian soil helping to crack down [against] the
opposition [in the east], the conflict could escalate to international
scale."

They then say: "Widespread revolts in East Ukraine in
response to the violent and controversial ursup[ation] of power by the the
new self appointed Turchynov regime face a brutal crackdown by selected
armed forces after the first attempt failed with many of the Ukrainian
forces refusing orders to shoot at civilians, ... deserting or even
switching sides. Civilians went out to block the efforts and convinced the
soldier with food and drinks to rest their arms. The second so called
'anti terror' offensive however shows signs of ... zero tolerance
against anyone opposing the new regime."

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The following is from the report in Der Spiegel, as
auto-translated by google, under the headline "Ukrainian Army Apparently Gets Support of U.S. Mercenaries":
"400 U.S. mercenaries to fight in eastern Ukraine against the
separatists. ... 'Bild am Sonntag' [says]: The fighters come therefore
from military service Academi, formerly known as Blackwater [which]
... formerly passes under the name Blackwater infamous
notoriety."

A Russian news report, which likewise is based upon
the story in Bild, summarizes: "The acting president Alexander
Turchinov shares this opinion [that Ukrainian nationals cannot be relied
upon to carry out such a mission]. 'Therefore it was decided to attract
foreign mercenaries, who will serve as political police and state security
protection,' said the representative of the Security Service."

However, this more aggressive foreign policy is not the
only recent indication that President Obama is starting to pursue more overtly
what are traditionally thought of as Republican Party policies.

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On May 9th, Dave Jamieson at Huffington Post
headlined, "Once a Walmart Boycotter, Obama Now on Cozier Terms
with Retailer," and he reported that despite the outrage
from progressives, Obama is now openly on Walmart's team, supporting the
international race to the bottom in workers' wages and benefits, for the
benefit of stockholders throughout the world.

Many of the reader-comments there, were, basically, still
in denial of this reality, simply because Obama continues his liberal rhetoric
of "hope" and "change," to serve as ongoing rhetorical
target-practice for the more overt fascist Sarah Palin, who openly laughs at
any hope and change at all, except of
the fascist type: the type that says, just open the floodgates to
corporate-government corruption, and "Drill, baby, drill!"

Liberals still don't get it: they still refuse to
recognize that they've been had, for over 5 years now, by this Manchurian
Candidate, Republican Trojan Horse in the Democratic Party, conservative fox in
the liberals' chicken-coop, who pours forth liberal rhetoric (such as his
favoring "equality") while he pursues the international mega-corporate agenda,
for the benefit of the aristocracy, who own practically all of the corporate stock (and that's not even factoring in any of
the estimated $21-$32 trillion of it that's
stashed away by them offshore and hidden entirely from the public but still
accruing dividends and capital gains as those stock-values go up), and
who serve on corporate boards and run the corporations and receive the enormous
bonuses from their stock-values going up -- and to hell with the workers, as
their wages go down, in order to help make
those stocks go up.

Here is one of the many reasons Reid
couldn't stomach these Obama trade deals.

But, since Obama won re-election in 2012, he no longer
even needs to worry about what congressional Democrats, or any Democrats for
that matter, think; and, when Republicans take over the U.S. Senate after
November, as all of the polling suggests they will, Obama will have clear
sailing, no longer with a leader in the U.S. Senate who was chosen by the
Senate's Democrats, but instead with a leader who will be chosen by the
Senate's Republicans. And, then, he'll be able to do everything he wants to do,
and has wanted to do all along.

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Democratic voters have been taken for a ride with Obama.
The end of it won't be pretty.

And, even before Obama so much as first entered the White
House, he was trying to wrangle John Boehner to agree to accept things he
wanted to propose that Republicans had actually been fighting for under Bush
when Democrats had power in Congress to block those things, but Boehner just
responded, in effect: No dice, we now demand even more. Their unrelenting
mantra was: We want you to be a one-term president.